Description

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TQ 3382
8/93

BOUNDARY ESTATE
SWANFIELD STREET E2 (west side)
Sunbury House

GV
II
1899. Main facade faces inner courtyard, end facades to Swanfield Street and Hocker Street. Red brick with slate roof. Recessed bays of four storeys and dormers, five storeys under gables. Centre block of three bays under Flemish style gable with elaborate stone coping. Roundel in gable. Side windows from first to third floor set in oriel bays, curved stone cornice above centre window. Flanking recessed portion of three bays, then advanced six bays with square turrets at each end. Centre four windows with tiled surrounds above ground floor with brick pilasters between. Stone door surrounds. Further recessed single bay with one small window at each side. Ends advanced under gables. Two round arched windows on ground floor give way to three windowed chamfered bay first to third floors.

The Boundary Estate is an early LCC estate of advanced design for its period. It contains a variety of architectural details and its streets radiate from a central raised park in Arnold Circus. The entire estate forms a group. See the following streets; Arnold Circus E2, Boundary Street E2, Calvert Avenue E2, Camlet Street E2, Club Row E2, Hocker Street E2, Ligonier Street E2, Montclare Street E2, Naverre Street E2, Old Nichol Street E2, Palissy Street E2, Rochelle Street E2, Swanfield Street E2 and Virginia Street E2.

Listing NGR: TQ3367182618

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27085135

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Recommended Books

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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)